Description
Client Data Specialist
Job Purpose
To proactively help drive and manage the department to ensure that it meets its mandated reporting, control and management objectives. Ensure that the department manages its client data by applying and maintaining adequate and sustainable controls commensurate with internal and external requirements.
Identify and drive adequate control and assurance requirements to support business as usual reporting and those necessitated by change programs.
Have excellent IT knowledge of Data systems in terms of current and future data architecture, design and data.
Key Responsibilities/Accountabilities
- Have 5 years of relevant client and reference data business, application support and relevant IT skills set, 2 of these operating as a key SME and decision maker.
- Decision Maker within the team, drives forward change across the department
- Have broad understanding of investment banking business areas gathered from tier 1 banks.
- Produce metrics and re-conciliations on numerous internal business data systems
- Ensure efficient implementation of new regulatory rules from a client data perspective
- Very good technical ability to write database queries and to understand database structure from a business and IT point of view
- Have ability to perform power-Shell and other Scripting languages as well as write reports in numerous technologies
- Good understanding of SQL Server and writing SSRS
- Self-starter who can identify issues quickly and come up with new solutions to existing problems.
- Provide mentoring to junior members of staff.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
Knowledge, Technical Skills and Expertise:
- Knowledge of Investment Banking support functions
- Financial services, background with experience of financial data systems
- Very Good IT skills and ability to quickly adapt to new software systems.
- Good Database knowledge and underlying knowledge of OLTP and DW and Business intelligence knowledge, ability to document data flows from a business point of view.
- Ideally have business knowledge re Dodd Frank and EMIR regulation re reference to counterparty classifications
- Provide data expertise component for any new internal and external projects.
- Ensure effective implementation of Review, Challenge, Change, Control, Review and Optimisation framework.
- Ensure that controls are maintained and developed as necessary to provide, assurance, analysis, explanation and evidence of Client Data. Ensure that all non-standard data reconciliation processes are understood and documented.
- Business ownership and oversight for all Middleware processes which are driven from trading and other systems.
- Monthly review and internal attestation of client data to senior management
- Deliver improvements to the rigor and control over the processes used for Client Data including enhancements to procedures and controls and the use management information to demonstrate the effectiveness of their operation
- Support line reporting and project teams to drive best practice and build/maintain an adequate control environment that is consistent with and complementary to other control processes and functions eg Risk, Compliance, Finance
- Aid and deepen skill and knowledge base in the department, and provide insights into best practice, utilising experience gained in other organisations.
- Act to reduce key person dependencies amongst team.
- Ensure that all departmental procedures pertaining to the client data are accurate and up to date.
- Provide adhoc support required by senior management in respect of CMU data.
- Produce client data guidance, procedures and framework and enable and carry out training
- Ensure department has effective controls in place to mitigate all identified business risks and proactive measures to track and improve upon the risk environment
Competencies:
- Ability to influence teams to ensure consistency and quality of deliverables
- Excellent communication and presentation skills. Confident presenting complex issues to senior operating and risk committees
- Able to manage own change portfolio, coordinating and driving local resources to achieve appropriate business results
- Capable of quickly adapting to Change .
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Identifying and implementing enhancements to existing processes.
- High level of personal integrity and respect for our regulatory requirements.